Player Poll: What Specifically is it you want from an "Auction House"

[Roughgalaxy]

I feel like the market wards aren't horrible... but they certainly aren't user friendly. Like Cutriss said, finding anything is a chore at the best of times. Having a market hut/counter that you can search for items (similar to an auction house) by type/class/level/etc would cut down the unruly hit and miss wandering around the wards looking for stuff.

[Ilean]

I feel like the market wards aren't horrible... but they certainly aren't user friendly. Like Cutriss said, finding anything is a chore at the best of times. Having a market hut/counter that you can search for items (similar to an auction house) by type/class/level/etc would cut down the unruly hit and miss wandering around the wards looking for stuff.

Also sorting equipment by stats, level, etc.

[Cairdeas]

Yeah hi, you might want to look at the quote I was referencing before you take my post out of context.

Your white-knight sense was tingling but needs some adjustment.

My comment was completely valid.

[Cutriss]

My comment was completely valid.

And completely unrelated to my post. Don't go dragging your anti-AH agenda into things when I'm complaining about the horrible usability of the Market Wards!

[Feldt]

I think most people just mean they want to buy directly from item search list and have item delivered into their inventory or mail box.

Where is RPG in that...? Also you need to go to the mailbox to pick them up either way... so you won't get them instantly.

I mean I'm against an AH, Wards are more jRPG style to me. AH Is for lazy people. (Yes i know this might be considered as an offtopic to the thread and i don't mean to start any discussion or troll war up with this.)

[viion]

I prefer AH because I find the Market ward a real killer for immersion (100's of peeps stood silently in a very narrow room), I also prefer being able to buy. I wish they'd go back to price history and now show current prices to help prevent insane undercutting.

[Cairdeas]

And completely unrelated to my post. Don't go dragging your anti-AH agenda into things when I'm complaining about the horrible usability of the Market Wards!

Your comments all reflect on the unorganization of the Search System. Adding an AH wont fix the search system. They'ed use the same one until they Fixed the search system. Right now the Search System works to an extent but it does need to be able to set filters and other things. These can be implemented but again that takes time to code. I know this much because I work in a Database Development group.

[Wynn]

I wish people would stop posting loaded, one-sided player polls. Of course nobody is going to choose the second option the way it is worded. Makes it worthless.

[Felis]

I wish a real auction house with auctions, no "buy now" feature. We have retainers for "buy now"

[Cutriss]

Right now the Search System works to an extent but it does need to be able to set filters and other things. These can be implemented but again that takes time to code. I know this much because I work in a Database Development group.

Pfft. Query filters and ETL are the easy part. The hard part is rewriting the UI to wire in query requests to correspond to those new targets. And if the game is designed correctly, where entries in the UI can be stubbed in, *neither* is "hard". I know this much because I am a developer with a passion for HCI.